Brett Jackson was 1-3 with a double and is now batting .262. Josh Vitters was 2-3 with a walk and Rizzo went 1-3 with a walk of his own. Chris Volstad struck out 7 in 7 innings pitched while allowing 3 earned runs.
Logan Watinks was 2-4 with a pair of walks and also got a walkoff single to cap a comeback win for the Smokies. Jae Hoon Ha has been really hot as of late and went 3-5. BA has always seemed to like Ha and up till this year I could never figure out why as he never really did anything. I guess he could profile as a 4th OF? Dae Eun Rhee was terrible again failing to strike out a single batter while allowing 9 hits and 7 runs in 5 IP.
Daytona
PPD
Michael Jensen had a great start he worked 5 scoreless innings and struck out 7. Baez stole a base as well.
Zimmer signed for $.5 mil under slot:
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/06/royals-agree-to-sign-kyle-zimmer.html
Vitters BBing still, and hitting some too. That’s not a bad sign.
@ WaLi:
I expect most will sign under slot. No reason for a team to offer slot anymore.
i wonder if we will get the Soler announcement today. If all the bids got there yesterday I dont see why not
@ mb21:
I guess it doesn’t matter because they aren’t the same players, but the Cubs could easily point to the two signed so far (Correa $2+ mil under and Zimmer $.5 mil under) as a point of negotation.
@ mb21:
If a team doesn’t sign it’s first rounder, do they get that pick back next draft? Is there a threshold? Like Top 10 picks only or something?
@ dylanj:
If his agent is smart he’ll do a second round of bidding
@ dylanj:
Interesting article on BA stating that Soler went a different way to claim free agency: http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/prospects/international-affairs/2012/2613543.html
Congrats to the Hope Monster on his big screen debut
Seriously, big ups to Josh, got a shout-out on ESPN’s front page.
I Hope Baez consulted with everyone before he stole that base.
@ Pezcore:
I noticed that too, kind of cool. What’s funny is that the only other time I’ve gone espn.com was for their live feeds of Cubs games.
@ Berselius:
You either know the unwritten rules intuitively, or you don’t. And if you don’t, you should have. Because they are rules.
Castillo starts a rehab assignment today. Geo isn’t ready yet.
Aroldis Chapman ———–> BUST
More Klaw: Pierce Johnson (Supp 1st round pick) and Josh Conway (4th round) would have been top 30 and top 50 talent before injury. Cubs hoping they’ll bounce back.
I’m surprised TJS even scares teams off anymore. I thought it was just a matter of course these days.
Berselius wrote:
Didn’t Klaw have Rizzo at #20? I find it hard to believe Almora is already a top 20 prospect in all of MiLB.
A will I recently enjoyed:
Fucking bullshit.
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@ Suburban kid:
Cafepress stuff does that, unfortunately. You should have sprung for the $100 deluxe coffee mug.
@ Rice Cube:
Yeah, I think Cafepress uses 1970s iron-on technology for affixing graphics to shit.
(dying laughing)
http://obb.joshuallen.com/2012/06/07/night-musings-6/
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/06/08/thanks-to-the-new-draft-rules-scott-boras-and-other-agents-have-a-pretty-stark-conflict-of-interest/
josh wrote:
Teams know the pitcher has already gotten it out of the way, so they don’t have to pay for it (dying laughing)
@ jtsunami:
Klaw ranks more on ceiling/potential than he does on certainty, for what it’s worth. Even then I find that to be pretty puzzling.
@ Berselius:
I wonder who pays for those Tommy John surgeries for HS guys. Loans banking on getting signed? It doesn’t seem like something insurance would cover.
@ Berselius:
I always assumed that the athletic department has a fund set up to avoid liability when minors get injured while playing sports during prescribed competition times. So that could probably subsidize whatever insurance the parents have for their kid.
KG has approved Josh’s comic on twitter.
@ Suburban kid:
Josh is SMRT in bypassing Cafepress for his Hope Monster T-shirts.
@ Pezcore:
This was a high profile interview of an OV commenter I recently enjoyed.
@ Suburban kid:
It looks like the cup is now from 1908
Soler apparently established his residence in Haiti, which is known for having even shadier paperwork processes than the DR
@ WaLi:
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Apologies for being off topic, but I thought the Breaking Bad fans would appreciate this:
@ bottleasmoke:
That failed. Here is is again?
http://www.kshb.com/dpp/news/crime/walmart-evacuated-after-meth-lab-found-on-shoplifter
@ Suburban kid:
Is that a before and after, or the opposite side of the mug?
@ GBTS:
I’m an idiot, nevermind.
I don’t think Boras has a conflict of interest as far as the draft is concerned. Eventually teams are going to realize it’s idiotic to go over slot. As a result the MLB draft is essentially a hard slot type of draft.
Unless the top player in the draft is considerably better than the next best player it makes no sense to go over slot for anyone. When you get into the 5th round and after it’s unlikely there’s a noticeable enough of a difference in talent to justify going over slot.
@ Rice Cube:
I thought about using them, but I wanted to talk to a place that’s local here that I drive by all the time. I really like their shirts and stuff, so I got a quote from them and it was way more reasonable than what Cafepress charged and I can drive over and approve it before they get mass produced.
@ GBTS:
I wondered why my pageviews shot through the roof.
Dude, that’s kick ass, I’ll buy a shirt, I assume you’ll post a place to buy them on your website, yeah?
@ josh:
I’d want a smiling hope monster t-shirt. That guy cracks me up.
Cashner is a SP again
@ dylanj:
All it took was 231 SPs getting injured in front of him
@ WaLi:
@ Doogolas:
Not really sure what the best way to go about it is. I wanted to gauge interest to see if it was worth just buying them with the assumption that they would sell, or take orders up front, or something. Hadn’t decided on a design yet. I’ll post some different possibilities and let people vote.
New shit
http://www.obstructedview.net/previews/series-preview-chicago-cubs-19-38-at-minnesota-twins-22-34.html
@ dylanj:
Isn’t he going to be limited to like 3 innings? Thought someone said that yesterday. It’ll be like a long-relief appearance.